Children at a community health event in Timor Leste, one of the locations where Health Alliance International has maternal-child health programs. Photo credit: Jessica Dyer (MPH '15), George Povey Fellow.

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Biography

Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, MD, MPH, PhD, is Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). He is a key member of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) research team and lead Causes of Death, Cancers and Gastrointestinal diseases working groups and develop partnerships with countries to produce GBD estimates that at subnational level.

Dr. Naghavi was a leading expert on primary health care, disease, injury, and cause of death in Iran, after spending most of his career at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran, where he ran numerous programs and initiatives he joined to IHME at 2007. At the Ministry, Dr. Naghavi headed up the Applied Research Center for Health and was in charge of disease control for both the province and the district.

Prior to joining IHME, Dr. Naghavi was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health in 2007. For more information, see his profile.

Burden of disease, death registry system and cause of death data, epidemiological study at the national level in developing countries; epidemiology of intentional and unintentional injuries; program evaluation in horizontal health systems; health information systems in developing countries; Health system expansion; management and integration of health programs.